Citizenship Medals for Everyone

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And now live from Mobile, Alabama as the Stomach Churns
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Joining Henry will be callers, emailers, radio and Internet listeners. So,

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without further ado, in the style of that great country
music legend Minnie Pearl, here's in.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Thank you so much, Thank you for tuning in and
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A lot of stuff to get into as usual here
on the Uncle Henvery Show. Events on the world level,

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national level, state level, local level, neighborhood level, all that
kind of stuff going on Mobile City Council meeting today.
In fact, I can probably cover that most of that
here in the first segment of the show. Now, there
was a little bit of I don't know what I
would call this. Mayor Standy Simpson was talking about a

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financial report that was released today for the citizens. Every year,
the City of Mobile releases a dumbed down financial report
so that ordinary people can understand city finances, and that
was released today. You can probably find it on the
city website. He was announcing this and he had to
stop talking.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I would suggest this.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
I think somebody was thrown out of the meeting.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Finances of the City of Mobile on and this is
actually now.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
This is on YouTube. The tube camera did not show
the person getting thrown out, but you just watch Mayor
Stimpson's face.

Speaker 5 (03:06):
Pafer is expressed in simple terms graphs, charts, so that
really anybody can understand the city finances if you were
to compare it.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
By the way, I'm sorry I didn't warn you. I
know that his charisma can shock you if you were
driving and suddenly had to you know, were shocked by that.
I apologize. I didn't want to cause any kind of
accidents with the charisma of the mayor startling you. But
back to the him talking before he stopped this.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
To the real financial report. The real financial reports about
echin three quarters thick, and you need to be an
accountant on attorney to understand it.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
He's explaining why they have to have a dumbed down version.
You're not smart enough when you get this.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
I would suggest that you maybe read the last page first,
because it's the definitions, and if you don't know what
the definitions are, you may not understand what some of
the graphs are recommending.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Finance is tough.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Page I would point out that right in the very
center here we go has to do with what we
own as a city and what do we owe. But
there's another graph that shows what's happening with the debt.
It's on page fourteen. This is good how over the
last twelve years that we have worked diligently to pay

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the debt.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
By the way, beautiful graph.

Speaker 5 (04:25):
Down and so I think it's very important. I'll just
wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And now there's somebody that is there's somebody that's being
escorted out. They never the YouTube camera never goes over
to show us.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Now.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Tried to amplify the audio to hear what was being said,
and I couldn't quite make it out. Here's some bad
amplified audio to see if we can figure out what
the person was saying as they were being thrown out.
All right, we got to don't touch me. They were

(05:13):
escorting physically, don't touch me, do not put your hands
on me. Was said, all right, no, no idea. It

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was just a fun little interlude from me knowing that
not that I want to see people get thrown out,
but every now and again it's it's it just breaks
up the soul sucking boredom of watching a Mobile City
council meeting when a citizen has thrown out. So somebody
was thrown out of the meeting saying please don't touch me,
let me walk, Please don't touch me, get your hands

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off me. So there was that. That was the fun.
There's some fun for the council meeting. Now, if you're
looking for actual news of substance, the Mobile City Council
today approved some things that moves money, ten million dollars
from the Capital Project Fund to pay for a new

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animal shelter that people have been asking for a new
Mobile animal shelter four years in Mobile. So the city
is got this six acres of land. They bought a
building on West I sixty five service Road that they're
going to turn into an animal shelter. Now, instead of
me going all over this, I'm going to let Mobile

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City Council Ben Reynolds explain it to you.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
This four council move rentals.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
Yes, sir mister President, today we have proved the basically
moving funds over to fund a animal shelter for our city.
It's something that's been needed for a very long time,
and it sort of been a very difficult process to
get here.

Speaker 5 (06:57):
I wasn't involved with all of it along the way, but.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
We set our goals very high at the beginning, and
we wanted to build a first class facility, top of
the line in every respect and make it brand new,
new construction. Turns out, the price tag that came back
on that was substantially higher than what we had the
budget to do. But our current animal shelter is outdated,

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it is not a great location, and it's got many
issues with it. Capacities, not there, many other things. So
We're left with a choice that we can continue to
operate out of this facility that is insufficient in many
ways and not necessarily meeting the public demands for animal services,
or we could wait longer and longer and longer until

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we can come up with a substantial amount of money
to build a brand new facility. I'm glad that we've
decided to not let the problem continue to go on
and take immediate action on finding a piece of property
that's centrally located and it's already got substantial infrastructure in
place that we're not going to have to pay for

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in a new construction scenario and sort of retrofit and
build some new stuff.

Speaker 5 (08:10):
It's my understanding to.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
Meet the needs of our citizens in the city. That'll
happen beyond this year. But it's we learned this morning
that the architect is engaged currently and he's coming up
with a new design or plan for it. And then
when they come back with it, then we'll enter into
some sort of an agreement for plans to be executed

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and hopefully we'll be in a good position pricing wise,
to make this actually happen finally.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
All right, So new animal Shelter voters like dogs back
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three email address Uncle Henry. iHeartMedia dot com. Now. In
the first segment of the show, just before the break,
I was telling you about today's Mobile City Council meeting. Uh,
that is about all the coverage I've got for you
this hour of the meeting. I will tell you this you.

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Of course, you can watch it on YouTube all of
it and read better coverage at Lamyakmobile dot com the
lambyakmobile dot com website. They've got coverage of it. It
was it was less than an hour in length. I
would like to applaud. It's an election season and in
these elections, politicians like to talk more than normal, hoping

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that citizens will remember that they're actually there. But even
with that, even in that atmosphere, they talked less today
and the meeting was I think it was less than
fifty minutes long, so I love them for that. It's
still too much for me. If they could get it
down to about a crisp twenty minutes, that'd be about it.

(10:34):
If we could do just a crisp twenty minutes on
that meeting, that'd be enough for me.

Speaker 7 (10:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
But no more coverage in this hour of it. You
can go find coverage at those other sources. I may
have more to say after six o'clock about the meeting,
because they did. The mayor did hand someone a He
gave out a citizenship medal and hung around somebody's neck
for their good citizenship. And I'm thinking about wouldn't that

(11:02):
be fun if we could come up with a list
of people that deserve a mobile citizenship medal. I can
think of a lot of people. I wanted to tell
you something, though totally unrelated, that gave me some hope
for the future. When I was at the wharf this
past weekend for the three nights in a row of

(11:24):
Red Clay Strays concerts, I was meeting the listening public,
the ninety five KSJ country music public, and a young woman.
She appeared to be under the age of forty, which
to me is almost like an infant. This young woman
apparently under the age of forty came up and was
talking to me and Shelby Mitchell of ninety five KSJ

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and we were quizzing her on her life, and she
said she was a new listener. She had just moved
to Mobile, I think from the West Coast. And I
asked her what brought her to Mobile and she said, well,
I'm a federal contractor and I've moved to Mobile. I've
moved my life to Mobile, Alabama. He's a federal contractor

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because I'm the business manager on a project working on
the new bridge. Yes, yes, now I'm still I still
don't know if I live to see the bridge get built,
this fantasy bridge that people have dreamed about for years
and years and years over the Mobile River. But actually

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to me, the first real now for a politicians says
to me that they're going to build it starting tomorrow.
I've learned from previous politicians not to bank on it.
I've just learned this no offense to all the current politicians.
I'm sure you're all wonderful individuals, and you mean at
the time you say it, you mean what you say.
But the politicians of the past have made promises. In fact,

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one politician came in here years ago and predicted that
he would be driving me across the bridge I think
sometime this year. Well, that of course hasn't happened. So previous,
previous politicians, all they've said I never came to be.
So it's hard for me to believe when they say
the bridge is going to get built. The bridge is
going to get built. But I encountered this. I encountered

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somebody that had moved across the country to work on it.
So a little hope, a little hope. Now, who knows
what will happen, but still a little hope. Somebody is
here already earning federal tax dollar to work on the bridge.
So that was just a little hope to me. That

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is more. That is a bigger sign than anything I've
heard in the last few years about the bridge. Now again,
the telephone number here two five one four seven nine
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dot com. There are news items to talk about in
fact today, just briefly, I feel like I've got to

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mention this. They held a cabinet meeting and took questions
from reporters today at the cabinet meeting, and the Epstein
stuff was brought up, because, as you may have already noticed,
the Department of Justice put out an unsigned memo claiming
that there was nothing to it that Epstein, it was

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just him. There's no evidence that he had a client list,
and there's no evidence he was blackmailing anybody. And all
the stuff we've got is really horrible, like child porn stuff.
You'll never see that. So that we're moving on from this,
there's nothing more to be said about the Epstein thing,
And of course anybody that's followed the story for years

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knows that's not quite what we've been told in the past.
But this was brought up. Here's what Fox reported on it.
This is very brief support for you.

Speaker 7 (15:01):
The memo from the Justice Department suggests they are moving
on from this investigation, but it's Attorney General Pam Bondie's
handling of the issue that is being scrutinized. Earlier this year,
she was asked by John Roberts about a potential list
of Jeffrey Epstein's clients, and it's been making the rounds.

Speaker 8 (15:17):
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Today.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
Bondi is defending herself. She says, this is what she
really meant in that interview the file along with the
JFK MLK files as well, That's what I meant by that.
Bondi also says that thousands of hours of video that
were part of the Epstein case were child sex abuse
material and therefore will never be released.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
All right, So we could go on about this for
hours of stuff we've already been told that are actually
in court documents that contradict all this. A lot of
stuff court documents contradict all this. The one thing I
do remember that I just wanted to mention that maybe
you know more about than I do. And uh Epstein's

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friend Julane Maxwell was on trial. I think there was
a list of people that allegedly young women were procured for.
I think somebody sued or somebody somebody asked for it
to be really they were going to release it at

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some point, or we're going to be compelled to with
some type of lawsuit or something, and somebody came forward,
A John Doe came forward and objected that these people's
names would be released because this John Doe was supposed
to be on that list and they they found for
that John Doe and it didn't come out. Just if

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you want to do your own research on it, that
would be something fun for you to research on. There's there.
There's obviously a lot of line going on here now
as to why that's that's. That'll the stuff that books
will be written about, probably for the next twenty to
thirty to forty years. Let's see, I do have a caller,

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telephone number two five one four seven nine two seven
two three Here on the Uncle Henry Show Now a
few weeks ago, the website known as wallet hub that
seems to exist only to create lists that people talk
about on television and radio and then get clicks for

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their website. A few weeks ago, the wallet hub dot
com ranked Mobile as being like the twenty fourth best
run city in the country. Twenty fourth best run city
in the country, and a lot of people were happy
to hear about that. Mayor Stimpson talked about it at

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a Mobile City council meeting. Well, now, of course, there's
a new list just about every day. There's a new
list today that maybe the mayor won't want to bring
up at a council meeting. The new list today is
the most and least stressed cities in the United States
of America. They took one hundred and eighty two cities

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and they had thirty nine key metrics to try to
determine the most stressed cities in the US in the
least stressed cities in the US. Now, the number one
most stressed out city is Detroit. Yes, Detroit, Michigan. That
fits the stereotype that we have heard for years about Detroit,

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and most of us would probably be stressed out if
we were living in Detroit, Michigan, Cleveland, Ohio, number two, Baltimore,
Maryland number three. In Baltimore, we've heard a lot of
terrible things out of Baltimore over the last ten years,
more than ten years. Now, where does Mobile fit in
on this? Now? I believe if I remember correctly. In fact,

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I'll look right now, we are Mobile twenty three out
of one hundred and eighty two cities. We're the twenty
third most stressed out city. Now that may have to
do with I don't know what all the different key
factors did. I mean, if potholes, If potholes are one

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of the three key metrics that they're judging this by,
I would think that Mobile would be ranked even higher
on the stress list. But Mobile is number twenty three
on the list of the most stressed out cities. For example,
we were considered more stressed out the Washington, d C.

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Or Chicago. Now think about that. Think about all the
stories you hear about Chicago and how every weekend there's
all these shootings and everything. According to these metrics, whatever
they are, we're allegedly more stressed out than Chicago, Washington,
d C, Miami, all these places that have reputations for

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some stress now Mobile on being number twenty three. That's
one thing. There are other cities in our region that
rank out as higher stressed than us. For example, Montgomery,
Montgomery is considered the thirteenth most stressed out city in

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the country. Really Montgomery number thirteen, Birmingham number nine, Birmingham
number nine in the same top ten that includes Detroit. Now,
the main reason I'm bringing this up has nothing to

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do with anything I've just told you. The main reason
I brought this up is the number four most stressed
out city in the country. This shocked me. Number four
most stressed out city in the United States of America
according to these these key metrics. Golf Port Biloxi, Really

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golf Port. Golf Port Biloxi is right up there between
Baltimore and Memphis on the stressed outlets. How did how
did golf Port Bluxei get ranked fourth most stressed out city. I've,

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of course, have been there so many times in my life.
Every time I meet people in there, they seem as
laid back, they seem the opposite of stress dout, and
I meet people from all walks of life there. When
I visit Gulf Port Biloxi, they seem as and I'm

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not just I'm not going to a casino to meet people.
I'm meeting people all over the place there in Biloxi,
Gulf Port fourth. I wonder what those metrics are that
would it's being close? Well, I mean they rank more
stressful than New Orleans did New Orleans number twenty. So

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I guess next time I go to Gulfport, Biloxi, I
need to ask some questions. I need to ask people.
The people that are seem real laid back, I'm gonna
ask them, hey, say hey, I notice you're really laid back.
Are you on something? Is that a rude question to
ask somebody if they're on something? Just to ask them?
Just curious? All right, hey, let me get Let me anyway.

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If you want to find out more, wallet hub is
the website to find out about stressed out cities. Let
me go to the voicemail voicemail number on the Uncle
Henry Show two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six
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topic that I really love.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Stroll tight um, you know, uncle. As I sit out
here on the front porch, joined us notice summertime weather,
I was reminded, uh the show when it was radio only, yes,
not no, no Facebook v before Facebook.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
And actually this kind of came to me a few
days ago. And so here lately, not every day, every
now and again I jumped back on the Facebook. But
I've gotten to where I've listening to the radio some
and I'll tell you what. You cannot beat AM radio
for a talk show.

Speaker 1 (26:15):
That is so true, That is so true. You can't.
I mean, you cannot beat AM radio. You just can't.
You probably want to.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
You can't m radio for a talk show, especially one
that's entertaining. And I just wanted you to know that,
and so thank you. Don't see me on the Facebook sometime.
Oh I'm listening to you on Radio seventy ten via
the app. Okay, that's all, looking forward to today's program,

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which begins at approximately thirty minutes.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
You have a good one and.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Roll tied roll tyroll, sixty eight year old Chris, thank you. Yes,
Am Radio, God bless me. You know, for years I
thought that I needed to create a special AM radio
awareness event just to make people aware of it now.
I was inspired years ago. A few years ago, the
City of Mobile had a special uh they put they

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parked buses in Benville Square to have a some type
of mass transit awareness day so that you would be
reminded that buses existed and maybe you might ride one.
I need to have some type of AM radio awareness
day event to think. I'm gonna ponder that, figure out

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where I could pull that off. Right back with more
show after the break. This says the Uncle Henry Show.

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a big show weigh in these fish. It is a
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evening between five and eight pm. So if you're down

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the fighting chairs at the Blue Marling Grand Championship that
is Saturday from five to eight at the wharf in
Orange Beach. Now, let's see. I think I've got time
here in this segment of the show for a voicemail

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LD the mad trucker calling in. I believe this is
about the mayor's race.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
Hey, uncle Henry, LD. How's going on?

Speaker 2 (30:17):
How's it going?

Speaker 3 (30:18):
I'm still enjoying retirement life. I hadn't picked up a
job yet, probably probably won't.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
You'll never be a trucking job.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
I'll never put my hands on the steering wheel again
after forty four years. But I'm calling you about low energy.
You have low energy, Elk Henry.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
By the way, yes, I believe I do have low energy.
I try to have. I try to have basic energy
or even high energy, but it's mostly low.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
You have low energy, Elk Henry.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
I hope you don't, but if you do, you're probably
gonna vote for Connie Hudson, one woman with low energy.
I saw her being interviewed.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
The other day.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
You know, we were happy to do some shopping around
town and ran into that. That woman's just low energy.
There's nothing left over. What Jim Bush of Alabama, we
won't vote for her. Man, don't vote for an old,
worn out woman. We already tried that with Sam Jones,

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and look where that got us. Mike dow an old tired,
worn out loser.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
Don't do it Mobile.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Let's go with Spiro, Spiro all the way, all right?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Look, ld I don't know. I have not noticed what
you're claiming that you have seen. I'll now pay closer attention,
but I have not noticed what you're claiming to observed here.
And I want to say to you, the listener, if
you would like to leave a voicemail about your favorite candidate.
Maybe you love Barbara Drummond, maybe you love Paul Prime,

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maybe you love Spiro, maybe you love Connie Hudson, feel
free to eve one of those messages. I'll play them.
Two five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six,
any any fan of any candidate. UH. I don't want
it to be one signed or two sided. So if
you want to promote whatever candidate you want to promote,
two five to one two one six, nineteen seventy six.

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That's two five one two one six, nineteen seventy six.
To promote the candidate of your choice for mayor or
even for Mobile City Council. And UH, and I'll pay
closer attention, sye if I notice anybody's energy level. Uh,
but maybe maybe they all seem energetic to me because
I'm battling with my own energy level. If that's the case,

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all right, Coming up there is more Uncle Henry Show
after the news break. We have a news break from
Fox coming up, and after that a little bit more
Uncle Henry Show. I've got a little bit more from
today's Mobile City council meeting. The mayor gave somebody a
a citizenship medal for being a good citizen of Mobile today.

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And the guy went up there and they hung the
medal around the guy's neck just like I don't remember that.
I guess I've missed this in the past where you
could get a citizenship medal. I didn't know they had those.
So we'll cover that. I want to let you you

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hear why the guy got a medal, And maybe we
can think of some people. There's got to be other
good citizens in Mobile that are not elected officials that
deserve good citizenship medals. Maybe they could give one out
every week if we had a good list of people
to give medals to. Anyway, that is coming up. That

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and more coming up after the news break here on
news radio seven to ten WNTM, The Uncle Henry Show,

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that says, The Uncle Henry's Show on news Radio seventy
ten WNTM. And you the listener. I appreciate you being
a listener. And as I've told you before, you know,
you can just turn this on, turn this show on,
and then you can walk out of the room just

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as long as it's playing. As long as it's playing.
Now in this half hour of show, gonna get to
this and that and the other. But listen, I got
something from today's Mobile City council meeting for you. There
was a Mobile City council meeting today. I talked about
it last hour. It was blessedly short, less than an hour,

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even though there was still a lot of politician hot air.
It was less than an hour, which is good. Now,
there was something at the council meeting. I don't remember
seeing this. I'm sure they've done it before. I just
don't remember seeing this before. The mayor gave a citizenship medal,

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a good citizenship medal out to a man that lives
a mobile.

Speaker 5 (35:30):
Now.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
I didn't realize that they could hand out citizenship medals,
can you? I bet you and I could think about
a lot of people that deserve citizenship medals. I'll get
into that in a moment. But they gave a citizenship
medal to a man that volunteers at the Mobile Animals Shelter.

(35:50):
Let's listen together as Mobile Mayor Standy Simpson gives a
citizenship medal to a guy I think he's from Scotland
that lives a mobile and works as a volunteer at
the animal shelter.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
So at this time I'd asked Martin Miller to please
come join me at the podium. Martin is going to
receive the Exceptional Citizenship Medal.

Speaker 1 (36:14):
Exceptional Citizenship medal, So you might be a good citizen,
might be a fair to Midland citizen. Some people are exceptional,
and if you are exceptional, you get a medal.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
And every now and then you have somebody in your
city that really goes above and beyond what would be
the normal expectation of any citizen. And typically his draw
is because of the they're passionate about something. Martin's passion
has to do with our animal shelter, and I would
say specifically dogs good. So ten years ago he landed

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a mobile from Scotland.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
He moved to Mobile from Scotland.

Speaker 5 (36:51):
Like a lot of people that grow up overseas, they
always dream of going to California. So he went to
California and found out the ground was not greener on
the other side of the fence, was homesick for Mobile,
and then started driving his way back in this direction
with his dog, who was an iron was an Irish center.
What was the name Troy? And as it turned out,

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Troy had cancer? Oh no, but his heart had been captivated.
And when Troy was unable to be saved, then he
was trying to figure out how do I plug in. Well,
we're certainly sorry for his loss, but because of the
bond that was created there, what he's done for our
animal shelter is truly unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (37:36):
Well, now we're going to listen to what he did
for the animal shelter. But he was he was living
in Mobile. He came here from Scotland and lived in Mobile,
and then he decided to go to California and Mayor
Simpson said there that the grass wasn't greener, and he
got homesick for Mobile. Now I can imagine he's probably
treated a lot better in Mobile. This is a guy

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from Scotland with a Scottish accent that you'll hear in
a moment in California. Even from Scotland with a Scottish accent,
I'm sure he's one of many and doesn't stand out much.
But in Mobile Alabama, if you've got an authentic foreign
accent from like Scotland or something like that, I bet
you're in high demand. Don't you think that somebody with

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an Scottish accent would be in high demand socially? In
Mobile Alabama? We love people that talk funny, don't we.
I mean, we really do. All right. Back to what
he's done as an exceptional, an exceptional citizen for I'll
say it correctly, eventually, an exceptional citizen. Let's hear to

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what he's done for the animal shelter.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
He's not working, he's volunteering at the animal shelter, and
not just volunteering, but he is sending texas, he's sending stories.
He's trying to find people to adopt the dogs. I mean, uh,
I would say that if probably Robert had the ability
to hire to it three more people, I'm not sure

(39:02):
that they could do all the things that Martin is doing.
On a volunteer basis, So Martin gives us me a
great pleasure to present you this exceptional citizenship award, and
on behalf of the citizens and the city council, thank
you so much, and that for all the dogs of
the Animal Shelter, thank you so much for what you're doing.

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You'll put a word to a Thounson.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
All right, let's listen for the Scottish accent.

Speaker 9 (39:33):
Thank you very much everyone. I'd just like to see
thank you to mir and thank you to Josh Norden,
to Robert and all the stacy and all the staff
at the Animal Shelter.

Speaker 1 (39:44):
This is good. See this out in California. He's a
dime a dozen, but a mobile Alabama. The social the
social demand, I'm sure people just want him. They want
him at parties. Just certain talk.

Speaker 9 (39:56):
As we spoke about earlier on with the mere you
don't need as good is the team you have around you,
and the team that we have with the shelter, from
the leadership all the way down has just been fantastic.
So I just really appreciate everyone involves, thanks their congratulations.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
All right, wonderful, what a wonderful accent. I'm a fan
of I'm a big fan of foreign accents. You know,
some of my favorite episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies was
when they, you know, they ran out of ideas on
the Beverly Hill Billies and so they sent them to London.
Do you remember that? You remember? You remember when Uncle

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Jed and Granny and Jethrow and Lama went to London
and they just toured London. They they run out ideas
on the Beverly Hillbillies that had been on for like
nine years, and what can we do? Let's send them
to London. And it was wonderful. It was wonderful to
see the Clampets interacting with the British. And it's just
a foreign accents when I in fact, when I was
growing up, I always assumed that somebody that had any

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kind of accent like that was way smarter than the
people I ordinarily knew in my life. I didn't realize
that you can have great wisdom combined with our our
own regional accents down here. I thought that the accents
said something about your brain power. I did not. I
didn't know any better. All right, let's see real quick

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from well before look before I get to something else
that happened at the council meeting today. The exceptional citizen
award that comes with a medal. Now, you and I
could probably come up with a long list of people
that ought to get that medal, that do wonderful things

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for the City of Mobile. In fact, if you have
any suggestions, you can voicemail me two five to one
two one six, nineteen seventy six two five one two
one six nineteen seventy six. You can leave me a
message and let me know who you think deserves a
citizenship medal. But I I think posthumously they should give

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one to Lillian Jackson. Yes, I believe that you should
give a posthumous, a posthumous citizenship medal to Lillian Jackson
who went to all the city council meetings and always
had lots of wisdom for the City of Mobile. And
for example, some Lillian Jackson.

Speaker 8 (42:24):
Uncle Henry, we are doomed. If you knew that we
were doomed. Anybody that can figure with the fingers and
toes knows that this city was broke when they had
to pass a one cent sales tax in order to
give the police officers a raise. You know that we're bankrupt.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
And we were, and there's financial issues plagued the city
until Stimson got in there and started paying down the debt. Hey,
I've got a little bit more Uncle Henry Show coming
up after the break. Let us please now take the break.
Take the break, it says the Uncle Henry Show on

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News Radio seven ten WNTM. News headlines are coming up
in ten minutes. I know you're craving news and information.
All you've got to do is endure this segment of
the show and you'll eventually get into the news and
information part of news Radio seventy ten. Now, in the
last segment of the Uncle Henry Shaw, I shared with

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you a moment from today's Mobile City Council meeting where
Mobile Mayor Standy Simpson gave a Exceptional Citizenship award a medal.
He hung a medal around a man's neck. For this man,
I think his name is Martin Miller, volunteering at the
Mobile Animal Shelter, got an Exceptional Citizen Award with a

(43:59):
medal that was hanging around his neck. And I was
thinking in the last segment, there's probably a lot of
people that you and I could point to through the
years and currently that do a lot for the City
of Mobile that are not they are not elected officials,
that probably would deserve an Exceptional Citizens Award and medal.

(44:19):
Of course, there's me. I won't go I won't go
into my qualifications, but I'm certainly qualified for this award
over years and years of constructive criticism. Had they only
listened to me throughout the years, we would be far
better off in every aspect of our lives. But I
don't want to talk about myself. Lily and Jackson, I
believe a posthumous Exceptional Citizens Award posthumously should go to

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Lillian Jackson, who used to go to all the government meetings,
Mobile City Council, Mobile County Commission and try to bring
fiscal sanity to the people that were in charge back
in Mobile, BI in the day. Here is a brief
clip of Lily and Jackson. I don't remember. I guessed

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this was a city council meeting. Let's listen together, She yes,
I believe it is. Let's listen. I think there was
a group of students there on some nightmarish field trip.
Let's listen to what Lilian said to the students.

Speaker 8 (45:24):
And I would like for the youth here today to
know that while every citizen in the city is concerned
about you, the best thing that we can leave you
with is freedom and to promote individual responsibility. Yes, and
we can't give you individual responsibility if over fifty percent

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of what you earn is taken away from you to
be reallocated to others who are irresponsible. And that is
one of the purposes of coming my coming down here
to city council and other council meetings free is to say,
stop taking away from the freedom and stop the taxation,

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because you won't have anything left in your hands by
the time we continue to create ordinances and you association things.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Lord have mercy. I miss her. I want to find
out if AI if I can kind of recreate her somehow,
not really, you know, not really, but just take all
of the stuff that I've got, feed it into an
artificial intelligence and see if we could get some type
of some type of fake imitation Lily and Jackson to

(46:37):
just comment on things like that, because that was as
her comments there were as accurate today as they were then,
and they will be accurate tomorrow and long after I'm gone. See,
I was looking at my archives of Lily and I've
got a. Of course, I can't play this for you now.
I've got a thirty six minute clip of Lily and

(47:04):
Jackson in my audio archives. It's she called my show
back when I was I was doing talk radio on
w abb AM back in the day. She called and
I let her talk. I let her talk for for
like half the show because that, look, I'm not paid
by the word. And who was smarter? Who's smarter me

(47:26):
or her? Well, she's obviously smarter than me, so of
course I let her talk for thirty five thirty six minutes,
let's see. But I do have this. This is brief.
This is Lily and Jackson. She wrote a poem for me. Uh,
this was a poem she wrote for me on my
old TV show, Lillian Jackson. Wonderful to see roses so much.

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She brought me some roses.

Speaker 8 (47:55):
It's past my bedtime, stand up, and I'm gonna have
to kind read this poem about things that you and
I have kind of discussed from time to time, all right,
And so this is a poem. A rose is a
rose is a rose, and I'm a rose to Uncle Henry,

(48:16):
opponent of communism, devil worship and immorral behavior and whom
I am proudly to consider a worthy fellow crusader. Dark recesses,
hide secret meetings and committees, resulting in done deals, and

(48:37):
taxes that are public defeating. Such things provide calls for
Uncle Henry's fight to throw out demons and devils and
turn on lights. But as to his fight against immorral behavior,
throw in the towel. It's a job for the savior.

(48:57):
Another chief problem, and that's upon, is that crime finally
has a home in the sun, Suppressed public stats and
swiped notes, murders of crime fighters, trusting hopes, arrogance and madmen,
and tyranny all around. Having been banished from one place

(49:17):
and another, scorned by scores and loved only by my mother,
Uncle Henry empathized with my ongoing plight and declared me
unique on his show one night. So, in spite of
all the bs heaped upon me by foes, Uncle Henry

(49:41):
thinks I smell like a.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Rose, and I still do. The late Great Lilian Jackson,
out of time, as they say in Sirland, have a
good one, as they say in Theodore, Take it easy
all right.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Later